Dark Side of the Joon

A tumbl through my brain
msleahhbic: Cancer should not be a death sentence. My mom is lucky to have a good job with excellent insurance.  To date, her medical bills and prescriptions exceed $200,000. Without Obamacare, the lifetime cap for her insurance would be $750,000.  It may be out of most people’s minds, but there are still forces that are going after Obamacare. Eric Cantor wants us to tell him about #obamacareinthreewords. I can’t quite do it in three, but here they are.  What a great chance to share my story as well: Due to some glitch in their system, my doctor’s office didn’t send me a bill for 3 years and recently I received a bill that encapsulated the entire time span. Due to a bout of abnormal paps, a heart issue, being pregnant and giving birth, and all those other things you expect such as sinus infections and treatments for stomach flu, my bills totaled over $11,000. My personal responsibility: $30. Due to having a low enough income to qualify for state funded pregnancy care, and having a very strong group health policy through my employer, I am not looking down the barrel of $11,000 worth of debt. Because of that, instead of preparing for several years of not being able to afford to repair my car because of medical care bills, being forced to decide which bills I can pay and which need to be pushed off, struggling to pay for every pair of shoes and pants for my children, and being stressed to the point of sickness over every financial bump in the road, we are okay. We are able to set a small amount aside each month for our kids’ college funds. They will go to college someday and their chances of being poor enough to qualify for state funded care when they are my age is much lower. I am able to take steps to break that cycle. We are able to save money to move this month to a nicer neighborhood. My kids will go to higher quality schools, and because I am closer to my place of work, my carbon footprint will be smaller. I will also have more time to prepare healthy meals at home instead of hastily purchased fast food, so my family’s chances of developing obesity and diabetes are lower.We will also have more quality time together, another proven factor in lowering the risk that my children will end up in prison, or dropping out of school.  Quality, affordable healthcare is a butterfly effect, don’t you see? The ACA may be seem expensive now, but it’s saving us so much time, money and energy in our futures. It frees up money that we would be spending on prisons and welfare, while making our society better and stronger because our *citizens* are better, and stronger. 

msleahhbic:

Cancer should not be a death sentence. My mom is lucky to have a good job with excellent insurance. 

To date, her medical bills and prescriptions exceed $200,000. Without Obamacare, the lifetime cap for her insurance would be $750,000. 

It may be out of most people’s minds, but there are still forces that are going after Obamacare. Eric Cantor wants us to tell him about #obamacareinthreewords. I can’t quite do it in three, but here they are. 

What a great chance to share my story as well:

Due to some glitch in their system, my doctor’s office didn’t send me a bill for 3 years and recently I received a bill that encapsulated the entire time span. Due to a bout of abnormal paps, a heart issue, being pregnant and giving birth, and all those other things you expect such as sinus infections and treatments for stomach flu, my bills totaled over $11,000. My personal responsibility: $30.

Due to having a low enough income to qualify for state funded pregnancy care, and having a very strong group health policy through my employer, I am not looking down the barrel of $11,000 worth of debt. Because of that, instead of preparing for several years of not being able to afford to repair my car because of medical care bills, being forced to decide which bills I can pay and which need to be pushed off, struggling to pay for every pair of shoes and pants for my children, and being stressed to the point of sickness over every financial bump in the road, we are okay.

We are able to set a small amount aside each month for our kids’ college funds. They will go to college someday and their chances of being poor enough to qualify for state funded care when they are my age is much lower. I am able to take steps to break that cycle. We are able to save money to move this month to a nicer neighborhood. My kids will go to higher quality schools, and because I am closer to my place of work, my carbon footprint will be smaller. I will also have more time to prepare healthy meals at home instead of hastily purchased fast food, so my family’s chances of developing obesity and diabetes are lower.We will also have more quality time together, another proven factor in lowering the risk that my children will end up in prison, or dropping out of school. 

Quality, affordable healthcare is a butterfly effect, don’t you see? The ACA may be seem expensive now, but it’s saving us so much time, money and energy in our futures. It frees up money that we would be spending on prisons and welfare, while making our society better and stronger because our *citizens* are better, and stronger. 

(via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)

centzo: i feel u I’m sorry….. is that James Franco hugging a butt? ……………………………………I’m just gonna leave this here.

centzo:

i feel u

I’m sorry….. is that James Franco hugging a butt?

……………………………………I’m just gonna leave this here.

(Source: ffffabio, via luckyshirt)

lestercorp: craftyjai: ride-the-vibes: This is JASON FYLES and he goes to my university (Newcastle University, North East of England) He is 19 years old, 5’8, ginger hair and slim. He was last seen in the Sandyford area at 2:45am on Thursday morning and has not been seen since. He was wearing a blue shirt, grey cardigan, beige chinos and brown ankle boots. Everyone in uni is so worried about him along with his family and friends. We are coming together as a university to appeal for his safe return. It is thought that he lost his friends on the night out and tried to make his way back by himself. Please, I am begging for you to REBLOG THIS, even if you don’t live in Newcastle, or England. Every REBLOG means that someone else will see his face, they will know who we are looking for, and your followers could be the one to know his whereabouts. Stay safe Jason, we’re looking for you. THIS WILL NOT RUIN YOUR BLOG!  Local news report PLEASE. Nobody reblogged my own post on this which I posted an hour or so ago so I’m wondering if nobody will now. This guy is my friend. If I have ever sent you a nice ask or reblogged something of yours and it made you happy for a second (or even if I haven’t; this is about helping him, not doing me a favour) for God’s sake just help now, help to find my friend Jason. You want me to make him human to you? Once we all grew beans in pots as part of a Biology experiment- the experiment failed miserably and made the whole lab stink, but his was the only bean that grew and he was actually pretty proud about it He learned to knit as part of a school project where he had to learn a creative skill, and when a couple of people teased him about it he said “gender is a social construct” and carried on knitting like a badass He loves the scene in The Great Gatsby where Gatsby throws all his silk shirts around and he and I used to giggle over it together Once I asked him if he had a string of tinsel I could use in a photoshoot and he brought me a big cardboard box full of tinsel and fairy lights because he’s a helpful and lovely guy He’s HUMAN and he needs our HELP and just PLEASE PLEASE FUCKING REBLOG THIS??? He’s been missing for four days now- when he went missing he would have been wearing his contact lenses and he won’t have had his (very thick) glasses with him so by now he’ll have had to take his contacts out and throw them away and he won’t be able to see well and oh God just please signal boost this he lives a few doors down from my best mate. crazy having something like this happen in your area. amazing to see so many notes and so much support. really sad, hope he’s found I’ll reblog the search for a Newcastle man. My hubbie is from Newcastle. Anyone?

lestercorp:

craftyjai:

ride-the-vibes:

This is JASON FYLES and he goes to my university (Newcastle University, North East of England) He is 19 years old, 5’8, ginger hair and slim. He was last seen in the Sandyford area at 2:45am on Thursday morning and has not been seen since. He was wearing a blue shirt, grey cardigan, beige chinos and brown ankle boots. Everyone in uni is so worried about him along with his family and friends. We are coming together as a university to appeal for his safe return. It is thought that he lost his friends on the night out and tried to make his way back by himself. Please, I am begging for you to REBLOG THIS, even if you don’t live in Newcastle, or England. Every REBLOG means that someone else will see his face, they will know who we are looking for, and your followers could be the one to know his whereabouts. Stay safe Jason, we’re looking for you. 
THIS WILL NOT RUIN YOUR BLOG! 


Local news report

PLEASE. Nobody reblogged my own post on this which I posted an hour or so ago so I’m wondering if nobody will now. This guy is my friend. If I have ever sent you a nice ask or reblogged something of yours and it made you happy for a second (or even if I haven’t; this is about helping him, not doing me a favour) for God’s sake just help now, help to find my friend Jason. You want me to make him human to you?

  • Once we all grew beans in pots as part of a Biology experiment- the experiment failed miserably and made the whole lab stink, but his was the only bean that grew and he was actually pretty proud about it
  • He learned to knit as part of a school project where he had to learn a creative skill, and when a couple of people teased him about it he said “gender is a social construct” and carried on knitting like a badass
  • He loves the scene in The Great Gatsby where Gatsby throws all his silk shirts around and he and I used to giggle over it together
  • Once I asked him if he had a string of tinsel I could use in a photoshoot and he brought me a big cardboard box full of tinsel and fairy lights because he’s a helpful and lovely guy

He’s HUMAN and he needs our HELP and just PLEASE PLEASE FUCKING REBLOG THIS??? He’s been missing for four days now- when he went missing he would have been wearing his contact lenses and he won’t have had his (very thick) glasses with him so by now he’ll have had to take his contacts out and throw them away and he won’t be able to see well and oh God just please signal boost this

he lives a few doors down from my best mate. crazy having something like this happen in your area. amazing to see so many notes and so much support. really sad, hope he’s found

I’ll reblog the search for a Newcastle man. My hubbie is from Newcastle. Anyone?

(via size10plz)

Unsolicited Mid-morning Advice:

luckyshirt:

When I was a kid, I was at my friend Andy’s house playing some spaceship video game. It was gorgeous and impossible, and I stayed up all night swearing whatever words I knew at 12 years old and hating and loving every moment.

The next day, our friend Dave came over. Dave knew a cheat code for the game that made you invincible.

I was ecstatic. I punched in whatever the code was (it wasn’t Gradius, nerds) and set out to kick some alien ass.

It was amazing. I could do whatever I wanted and had all the power-ups and nothing could hurt me. And by the second level, I was bored as hell.

I never even finished the game.

The game was fun because it was challenging. Which gave me a sense of accomplishment and that shot of smack straight into my spinal cord for overcoming whatever crazy Japanese nonsense they threw at me.

This is why role-playing games are so popular. The long boring periods of hacking away at bushes that have teeth or some nonsense to get enough gold to buy a sword that was better at killing toothbushes creates a cycle of clearly intangible reward, but a repeated sense of accomplishment.

Life is like that. We work to get money to get stuff. Mostly.

Which is why I believe money truly can ruin everything.

Getting a bunch of money can be a lot like getting an invincibility code for life. All the joy is suddenly sucked out of the grinding you were doing to get ahead, and now you’re just a person with money spending it on 12-dollar coffees looking for yourself and your purpose.

I’ve seen it happen too many times. Look at what it does to celebrities. I’ve even seen it happen to friends.

So many of us are chasing that dollar and envy the rich. Don’t.

Make what you need to get by. Live simply. Own as few things as you can. Try to focus on how true it is that your not-dead body is enough.

I know. It’s something you hear all the time, that your health is all that matters. But it’s the kind of thing you won’t be ready to accept until you’re ready to accept it.

This has been the last few years of my life, and I have never been happier.

More than 100 million Americans—one-third of the population—live in poverty or a category called “near poverty.” Yet the stories of the poor and the near poor, the hardships they endure, are rarely told by a media that is owned by a handful of corporations—Viacom, General Electric, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., Clear Channel and Disney. The suffering of the underclass, like the crimes of the power elite, has been rendered invisible.